Atari w/ built-in speakers??

[Ian Primus]

The Atari I use a lot is a Sears Tele-Games light sixer. It lives on top of a 13" television set. The thing was pretty dusty from being out like that, so I decided to clean it. I took it apart so I could use water on those little grooves without getting any in the cartridge slot. While I was cleaning, I found that on the left and right side of the top panel, there are little slits down in the grooves, much like the slits in the grooves on the front of a television set, right where the speakers are. Was the Atari intended to have internal speakers? They couldn't be for heat, I mean, the Atari doesn't really heat up. Any ideas?

 

Ian Primus

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[Atari-Jess]

the orignial heavy sixers design was supposed to have built in speakers.

[Lemmi]

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Originally posted by Atari-Jess:

the orignial heavy sixers design was supposed to have built in speakers.

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Ayup what he said

[The Night Phantom]

Had the VCS sported its own speakers, it wouldn't have been the first video game console to do so: the original Fairchild Channel F had its own speakers (however, its successor from Zircon used the TV's sound). Not that anyone remembers or cares.

[Ian Primus]

Did it really help the Fairchild any, I mean, a *feep* is a *feep*, isn't it?

 

Ian Primus

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[ubersaurus]

Yeah but Channel F rules, so yeah ;p

[Paul Slocum]

I lot of pong systems I've seen have built in speakers too. It would be pretty cool to build speakers into an Atari.

 

-Paul

[Lemmi]

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Originally posted by Smart Patrol:

It would be pretty cool to build speakers into an Atari.

 

-Paul

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Yeah that would be cool, but you would need to add a volume dial some games are just better played with low sound and some are better with the sound all the way up